Denise Walker

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About Denise Walker

23 years in industry, including: sales; sales management; setting up, running and selling businesses; management consulting, interim management, training. Currently runs Absolutely Business, which provides a variety of business support services, training and interim management for SME business owners and their teams. To date, helped 150+ companies to increase reveue and profits and maximise staff performance.

Mentor

Full-time Employee

Owner

Full-time Employee

From Aug 2006 to Present

I specialise in helping owners, directors and managers and owners to improve business performance and maximise their potential sales, profits and value. This is through business consulting, coaching, mentoring, in-house training or working as an interim and my style is down to earth, practical and straightforward. I am passionate about business and about helping my clients to maximise their company and people performance. Specialist areas are: strategic and business planning; sales (technique, processes, KPIs); and people management (management training, recruitment, induction, development, appraisals, conflict management, team building). My clients have confirmed that my influence has quickly impacted their success: “In the last quarter, our revenues have been the best ever and it’s all your fault!!”

Executive Director of RITE

Full-time Employee

From Feb 2004 to Jun 2006

Researched, launched and established RITE as a stand-alone subsidiary business, on behalf of the REC. This was the UK’s first industry-specific enterprise support service, designed solely for the recruitment industry. Clients were UK-based recruitment business start-ups and established recruitment businesses (turnover up to £10m). In addition to delivery of the services, I also had responsibility for running the business (including sales, marketing, PR and financial control) and for ensuring that operations were carried out effectively. Once the business was set up, key tasks were as follows: Delivery of servicesTraining and developmentSalesMarketingPR

Owner/MD

Full-time Employee

From Apr 1992 to Aug 2003

I formed this small, generalist recruitment consultancy in 1992 to deal with permanent, contract and temporary recruitment for SMEs and blue chip organisations in Surrey. In 1999, I established a Head Office and opened the second branch shortly afterwards. The third branch was opened in 2003. At its peak, we employed 24 staff and annual turnover was £3.8 million.